An intense and unusual adventure into the Costa Rican rainforest, fraught with challenges but rich with the joys of overcoming them. A down and dirty story where few have ventured, this little tribe had every kind of glory and woe.

(Under pen-name Ava Greene.) Enlightenment, truth—what and where are they? Here I devoted a year and a half of journalistic musing to some of the deeper and shallower questions. As a yoga teacher, I started and never really ended with the benefits of going within and honoring one's self.